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Blasts in KP after peaceful Muharram
[Pak Daily Times] Multiple bomb kabooms shook Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... on Saturday, killing two and injuring at least a dozen people. In one of the incidents of violence, a policeman was killed and two others injured after a police van hit a roadside kaboom in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... . A police official said the van was on its way to Hangu when it was targeted using a remote-controlled device. Earlier, a suspected jacket wallah maimed four Frontier Corps personnel and two passers-by in Bannu. Official sources said the suspected suicide bomber rammed his cycle of violence into a security forces vehicle, injuring the six men and damaging the vehicle. According to police, the suicide bomber was killed in the attack. Security personnel cordoned off the area and started a search operation after the incident. Another bombing injured three people in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. . Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel said that approximately five kilogrammes of kaboom, fitted in a cylinder, blew up near a police van on Kohat Road in Budhber area on Peshawar's outskirts. As a result of the kaboom, the police van was completely destroyed while three people sustained injuries. Rescue teams reached the site of the blast while security forces cordoned off the area. The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital. Bombings took place in the province as at least 10 people were killed in sectarian festivities in Rawalpindi on Friday. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-17 |
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